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(CEP News) - All eyes will be on the U.S. nonfarm payrolls report on Friday, with job losses expected to climb to a post-war high.

TOKYO, March 6 (Reuters) - Citigroup plans to sell its26 percent stake in Japanese online broker Monex Group Inc as part of the struggling U.S. bank's global efforts toraise cash, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Friday. Citigroup's stake in Monex was worth about 15.3 billion yen($156 million) as of Thursday's close. Citigroup appears to have already sounded out severalfinancial institutions on the sale of its stake in Monex, theYomiuri reported.

CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - March 5, 2009) - THIS PRESS RELEASE IS NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO ANY UNITED STATES NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR OTHERWISE FOR DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES. ANY FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THIS RESTRICTION MAY CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF UNITED STATES SECURITIES LAWS.MGM Energy Corp. (TSX:MGX) ('MGM Energy' or the 'Company') announced today its financial results for the twelve months ended December 31, 2008.The Company reported a net loss for the twelve months ended December 31, 2008 of $100.2 million ($0.52 per share). The net loss for the year was principally due to the previously announced dry-hole costs of $32.4 million related to the Aput and Atik wells drilled in early 2008 and $26.7 million of exploration costs related to the seismic acquisition program in early 2008, both of which were reflected in the September 30, 2008 financial statements, plus the following significant items recorded in the fourth quarter of 2008: (i) dry-hole costs of $4.4 mi

(CEP News) - Australia's construction industry continued to deteriorate as weak market demand and confidence led to further cutbacks in new project work, AIG reported.

Apple's iPhone Apps also available for the iPod Touch have exponentially increased in number since the July 2008 opening of the App Store. While many of the available applications are designed for personal use, such as games, a growing crowd of developers and top applications such as Citrix, Oracle and Google are releasing software for the enterprise. These programs can help users do everything from read reports on their Web site traffic, to viewing real-time business-performance info, to being able to note their GPS position while hopelessly lost on a sales trip. Except for Google Gmail, all these applications are available for download from the iTunes App Store. - ...

A report by Secunia found the number of vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox greatly outpaced Internet Explorer, Apple Safari and others browsers in 2008. However, Mozilla was quicker to react than Microsoft when dealing with vulnerabilities disclosed publicly without prior vendor notification. - Mozilla's Firefox Web browser has been gaining market share against Microsoft Internet Explorer for years now. However it surpassed IE in a far less glorious category in 2008 - the number of bugs.According to research by Secunia, 115 security vulnerabilities in Firefox were reported in 2008 ? nea...

Total revenues for the fourth quarter of 2008 decreased 14.5% to $26.2 million , from $30.6 million in the comparable period of 2007. The consolidated gross profit for the fourth quarter of 2008 was 30%, which was consistent with the fourth quarter ...

-EURUSD in center of choppy downtrend, no bias at this point -GBPUSD making way towards bottom of 1.35-1.50 range? -AUDUSD range compressed, watch for...

’s weekly rate report said 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 5.15 percent this week, up from 5.07 percent last week. A year ago, 30-year mortgages were averaging 6.03 percent. “Mortga...

Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated COKE today announced it earned $1.4 million, or basic net income per share of $.15, in the fourth quarter of 2008 compared to a net loss of $1.8 million, or basic net loss per share of $.19, in the fourth quarter ...